Viking conquest : where can i get crossbow?

[Kenan Komutan]

Which city i can get?

[redrose2]

hmm i not see but few town have talented armorer and weponer you need 600 renow ... maybe they have crossbow

[AxeKnight]

The picts had crossbows by the late 800's so try Scottish areas

[Amsfam]

I found one in Edynburgh (or however they spell it in the module). If I remember correctly the stats weren't that good though

[Jaman]

Originally posted by E3:

I found one in Edynburgh (or however they spell it in the module). If I remember correctly the stats weren't that good though

All non-throwable ranged weapons are quite poor. And with so many units equiping a shield their usefulness is reduced even further.

[⛧ Morslyte ⛧]

In Pictland (modern day Scotland).

[Cerberus]

the city of the kingdown of alban, is the city on the north i dont remember the name

[White Knight]

Scuin is the only city they have but Edynburgh or Dun Breatan (sp?) might also have them.

Your best bet is to go up there and fight.

One massive benefit to the crossbow, other than the aiming, etc. is the fact that there are Masterwork Pictish Crossbows in the game but bows only go up to Strong Long Bow...as far as I know, anyway.

[Walker]

the city one up from Edynburgh. Scuin. It is the only city I know of that sells the master crossbow.

[Kenan Komutan]

Yes i found in SCUIN. but its useless, i use piercing bolts and firing unarmoured bandits in a chest, and "you deliver 21 damage". This is useless in DLC

[⛧ Morslyte ⛧]

Originally posted by Kenan Komutan:

Yes i found in SCUIN. but its useless, i use piercing bolts and firing unarmoured bandits in a chest, and "you deliver 21 damage". This is useless in DLC

It is only accurate, the early medieval period didn't see much ranged warfare, it was all about shield wall and close up foot combat. Not much calvary either.

[White Knight]

OP, archery in general was brutally nerfed in this mod, that is for certain. The devs didn't want you to humiliate their big, tough vikings with puny archers on horseback. It's about that involved and thought through.

Get your history from books and educated people in your community. Don't ever take the word of anonymous people on the internet and then go around spreading that garbage in other threads.

This game is about as historically accurate as The Holy Bible. It has a little more attention to real world history than the original game which was based in a fantasy setting that was loosely based upon our world. Any highschool history student could rip this game to shreds if they wanted to. It's a video game after all. The priority is on having fun, not teaching history.

In game, bows (and crossbows) are pretty much useless to begin with. If you get your archery skills developed, bump up your Power Draw skill (I don't think this helps with crossbows though) and upgrade your equipment, archery can pay off.

I didn't start to feel like "an archer" until about level thirty. Having a good group of archers in your group will be helpful at any level however.

[⛧ Morslyte ⛧]

Originally posted by White Knight:

OP, archery in general was brutally nerfed in this mod, that is for certain. The devs didn't want you to humiliate their big, tough vikings with puny archers on horseback. It's about that involved and thought through.

Get your history from books and educated people in your community. Don't ever take the word of anonymous people on the internet and then go around spreading that garbage in other threads.

This game is about as historically accurate as The Holy Bible. It has a little more attention to real world history than the original game which was based in a fantasy setting that was loosely based upon our world. Any highschool history student could rip this game to shreds if they wanted to. It's a video game after all. The priority is on having fun, not teaching history.

In game, bows (and crossbows) are pretty much useless to begin with. If you get your archery skills developed, bump up your Power Draw skill (I don't think this helps with crossbows though) and upgrade your equipment, archery can pay off.

I didn't start to feel like "an archer" until about level thirty. Having a good group of archers in your group will be helpful at any level however.

Wow we have a historian here. And aparently master in theology too, to add the Holy Bible to his codswallop. If this is so "logically unaccurate" and "any school student would know", then please, enlighten us, how was it that bows were used in early medieval Britain and Scandinavia?

[White Knight]

Originally posted by Kaiser Joseph I:

Wow we have a historian here. And aparently master in theology too, to add the Holy Bible to his codswallop. If this is so "logically unaccurate" and "any school student would know", then please, enlighten us, how was it that bows were used in early medieval Britain and Scandinavia?

Rather than engage in some childish flame-war, I'll simply suggest that anyone who is genuinely interested in this subject, go and do your own reading.

No one who knows anything about history will ever hold up this game as an example of what life might have been like back then. It's just a video game and it doesn't even try to pretend that it's an accurate historical reference. They describe their own game as being slightly more relevant to real history than the original game. That's it.

For some relevant insight into the depth of this game, see what Taleworlds says on thier own site:

https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/VikingConquest/Cultures

(both archery and cavalry are addressed to some degree)

[⛧ Morslyte ⛧]

Originally posted by White Knight:

Originally posted by Kaiser Joseph I:

Wow we have a historian here. And aparently master in theology too, to add the Holy Bible to his codswallop. If this is so "logically unaccurate" and "any school student would know", then please, enlighten us, how was it that bows were used in early medieval Britain and Scandinavia?

Rather than engage in some childish flame-war, I'll simply suggest that anyone who is genuinely interested in this subject, go and do your own reading.

No one who knows anything about history will ever hold up this game as an example of what life might have been like back then. It's just a video game and it doesn't even try to pretend that it's an accurate historical reference. They describe their own game as being slightly more relevant to real history than the original game. That's it.

For some relevant insight into the depth of this game, see what Taleworlds says on thier own site:

https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/VikingConquest/Cultures

(both archery and cavalry are addressed to some degree)

Do my own research, what kind of argument is that? I'm demanding you to provide your sources because my research was already done years before you even show up. I want to see any evidence for your claims that bows were important, in this period, in this area. Don't you come citing Iberian warfare or Magyar troops, we are specifically speaking of Norse, Celtic and Anglo-Saxons.

And no, as you will learn in college if one day you set foot in there, a discussion on an academic topic is nowhere near a childish flame-war, it is a disputatio.

[old Charlie]

Originally posted by Kaiser Joseph I:

And no, as you will learn in college if one day you set foot in there, a discussion on an academic topic is nowhere near a childish flame-war, it is a disputatio.

Disputations about video game on a steam forum.
Good lord, I must be getting old if this is what they teach at college nowadays...